WRITING ON THE WALL.. May-June 2015

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WRITING ON THE WALL Anne Fløche DK Exhibition 7 may - 27 June 2015

Scattered phrases - 1100º Celsius - the World's geography and space.
Anne Fløche works with ways of relating to life and understanding of the world.
The pieces come out of her experiences, memories and the process itself.
She always works deeply personal and concentrates on a current basic idea, connects with the project and becomes one with the process of development.

ANNE FLØCHE "For this exhibition, I have worked with words and texts, phrasal-memories, fragmentary quotes from books, television, internet, newspapers..

- They are open statements that have been hanging in the air - simple, but enormously complex. - They are aesthetically beautiful words and sentences with significance, for example (translated from Danish): Continental Shelf/ Mariana Trench is the World's deepest point/ Space is full of time/ The sound of light sets ashore/ The Moon has power over the sea..
The language, in which I deliver things, is found in the material and process. The considerations occur in a natural 'flow', that happens when everything goes well, and the choices of creation almost float by themselves - I 'switch off and take my head under my arm'."

The material is a subordinate instance that is familiarly based on years of experience, where the pieces almost happen by themselves, like when the hand knows its writing tool.
The subject revolves around geography, time and space.

Can the sentences be read without the materiality of the artworks or do the words, mood and physical form combine mysteriously into a linguistic universe - a new form of geographical sensuality?

Titles and words leap out in the study of the World as a spatial property, where the pieces reflect on the detached sentences and express an atmosphere, the words continue in their own ambiguity - and clarity.

The viewer is presented with an unusual view on World geography and space.

ANNE FLØCHE by David Whiting - Exhibition at Galerie Besson, London 2000
"Anne Fløche's work has a particular quality of movement. Her pots, mainly big dishes, bowls and bottles, are beautifully drawn, a freely expressive hand seen in bold and broad definition of form, depth and texture of glaze and an economic brush.
These crawling pigments and lyrically abstracted motifs (such as coastal wading birds, fish and blossom trees) enrich the poetic charge of these pots and reveal a sensitive, gently humorous eye for the shapes and characters of the natural world.
Her inspiration is markedly Eastern, but these objects relate as well to the ceramic history of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, Turkey and Morocco. The result though is highly individual, a pottery of floating images - breezy evocations of time and place."

PAST AND MODERNITY Kunstavisen - Exhibition, Danish Ceramic Art Museum 2008
In her works, which appear almost exhausted matte, dusty colours of ochre, grey, Italian-red and delicate-blue meet with black and white.
The rectangle and ellipse (and the cube, circle, square) are recurring figures.
The items are caskets, dishes, vessels, columns, tiles and edged bottles, all items that have been used for millennia. But her artistic use of those shapes is her very own. In many of the pieces appear symbols, lines and ornaments, also often scars and desired swath. Yes, some of her ceramic plates are characterized by fragments that were broken or ripped out of a larger whole. Anne Fløche manages to unite the distant past with a striking modernity.
Quite wayward, wry and poignant telling the whole story. Both the large, old world chronicle, but also about life here and now and on meetings between known and unknown, it may take one up to a higher level. As she makes beautifully evident.

ILLUSTRIOUS - Nov 2010

CUMULUS - Oct 2010

DIAMONDS ARE... Sept 2010

SETUPS - Aug 2010

THINGS IN COMMON - Jun 2010

CONTRAST - May 2010

HAPPENSTANCE - Apr 2010

DONI VOTIVI - Mar 2010

2D to 3D - Jan 2010

About Me

I am a ceramic artist, potter and designer. In 1983, I completed a traditional four-year Danish apprenticeship in studio pottery at H. A. Kähler, DK. In 1998, I graduated as a ceramic designer from the Denmark Design School in Copenhagen. Important influences in my work are travels and studio residencies in Japan, the USA at Archie Bray Foundation and Arizona State University, Canada at Banff Arts Center, China, Australia, South America, Egypt and Europe. I enjoy teaching and have developed a great interest in promoting ceramic art, collaboration projects and developing international relationships. In 2001-2007, I worked as the director of the International Ceramic Research Center - Guldagergaard in Denmark. In my studio, I design and produce short series of functional tableware in porcelain, stoneware and earthenware. I also work with sculptural vessels embodied with elements of the human form, movement and body language. The sculptures reference my fascination with different cultures, the human body and mind. My studio and gallery is in Copenhagen.